u/Far_Experience_2688

This frame isn't the whole thing, it's just where the cosmic web sits on a map you zoom through continuously. You start at a planet and scroll all the way out with no loading screens or scale jumps: Solar System, stars, the Milky Way, the Local Group, then this. Watching the filaments resolve out of nothing as you pull back is the part that actually holds up in motion, which a still can't really show.

Data: the Cosmicflows-4 group catalogue (Tully et al. 2023), 37,730 groups spanning roughly 11 to 773 Mpc, plus the Tempel SDSS DR8 filament catalogue, 15,421 filaments made of about 275k points.

Tools: drawn live in the browser with Three.js on a custom WebGL engine (Angular, no backend). The filament spines stream in as a 4.5 MB binary and draw as GPU line tiles; the groups are one GPU point batch, revealed progressively as the camera approaches. Coloring and the depth fade are mine.

The whole thing is interactive at super-universe.app/en if you want to fly through it instead of looking at one frame.